Hull Wanting Plum Cup Tie

After defeating Hartlepool on penalties, the City players and fans now anxiously await to see who City will be drawn with on Saturday for their third round clash.

With the third round being where the big names come in, it will be exciting to see whether City will entertain the likes of Chelsea or Manchester United or whether we have an away trip to Wycombe Wanderers or Chesterfield. The draw is made on Saturday during the ‘Sky Sports Soccer Saturday’ program and we will bring you news as we hear it.

With this in mind, we asked you at Vital Hull what sort of team you woul like to play in the third round.

With City having failed to get to the third round so many times in recent seasons, it is certainly a pleasant suprise to be site here awaiting the cup draw at the weekend. Although it’s taken us so long to eventually get to this round, 63% of the fans want us to play a difficult match against a premiership side.

The League Cup has long had an assosciattion with the Premiership teams as unimportant. On many occassions, the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal will field a mainly reserve side hoping to avoid an upset but progress through to the next round without having to use any of their star names.

Of course, this also provides the lower league opponents with the perfect opportunity to progress further in the cup and whilst the Premiership big-boys don’t need the revenue a cup run can bring, the lower league sides certainly do. A succesful cup run could pay for several weeks or months wages of the team or even provide the club with the financial backing to purchase a new player.

One thing that is certain to happen should a Premiership team visit the KC is the crowd will be higher than in previous rounds. The crowds against Tranmere Rovers and hartlepool United were, quite franky, awful. We all now the glamour is different from when you play Hartlepool to when you play Chelsea but the team you re supporting is still the same. With only 6,000 there, the crowd didn’t get going and in-turn, the player’s never got going – a never ending circle that relates to our poor performances in the cup over the last three or four seasons.

A third of fans just want an easy passage through with 34% voting for this, but with so few lower league teams remaining, there aren’t too many easy ties left out of the thirty-two clubs. Wycombe Wanderers represent League 2 and based on their curen ranking in the ninety-two, they would be viewed as our easiest opposition, but after defeating Fulham atCravern Cottage, they wouldn’t be an easy turn-over.

No fans wanted a fixture against a Championshp or League 1 side. Preferably, the fans want a premiership tie but apart from that a local away fixture or a match against a team not usually seen at the KC Stadium would be welcome.

Tune into the draw on Saturday morning or log on here and we will update you with the news as it happens.